How Stephen Miller Rode an Anti-Immigration Wave to the White House - NYTimes

When historians try to explain how opponents of immigration captured the Republican Party, they may turn to the spring of 2007, when President George W. Bush threw his waning powers behind a legalization plan and conservative populists buried it in scorn. Mr. Bush was so taken aback, he said he worried about America “losing its soul,” and immigration politics have never been the same....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html